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hemp
1 a: a tall widely cultivated Asian herb (Cannabis sativa of the family Cannabaceae, the hemp family) that has a tough bast fiber used especially for cordage and that is often separated into a tall loosely branched species (C. sativa) and a low-growing densely branched species (C. indica) b: the fiber of hemp c: a psychoactive drug (as marijuana or hashish) from hemp2: a fiber (as jute) from a plant other than the true hemp
; also : a plant yielding such fiber
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